The Commissioner of Works and Strategy in Bayelsa State, Chief Mr. Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo has described the partnership between the Development Research and Project Center, (dRPC) and the National Association of Community Health Practitioners,(NACHPN) under the Partnership in Advocacy for Child and Family Health,(PACFaH@Scale) as a commendable step towards improving the nation's Health sector.

On behalf of the Senate Committee on Health, the Nigerian Senate and the 8th National Assembly, I write to recognize and appreciate the timely support of dRPC-PACFaH towards the actualization of the 1 % Consolidated Revenue Fund for Basic Health Care Provision Fund in the 2018 Budget of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

As part of the efforts to improve Budgetary Allocation to the Health Sector, the Advocacy for Child and Family Health, PACFaH sponsored the Senate Committee on Health to the South African Legislature to collaborate on legislative agenda on Healthcare delivery. Excepts of the visit is captured in the video.

The Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with Development Policy Research Center (dPRC), with the support of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation held a 1- day NGO/CSOs Stakeholders’ engagement on the 19th of July, 2018. The objective of the meeting was to discuss the existing task shifting and sharing policy (TSSP), identify gaps, barriers to effective implementation and provide recommendations as well as consider future implementation considerations.

Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria- Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health at Scale; Centre for Communication and Reproductive Health Services among other stakeholders have called on the 36 States of the federation including Federal Capital Territory, to domesticate the use of National Standard Treatment Guidelines, NSTG and Nigeria Essential Medicines List, NEML guideline to foster rational use of medicines at all levels of healthcare. Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/stakeholders-call-for-rational-use-of-essential-medicine-in-nigeria/

The one day meeting was organised by the Federal Ministry of Health and the development Research & Project Center (dRPC) under the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PAS) project.

On behalf of the PSN President, His Excellency, Pharm. Ahmed Yakasai FPSN, and the PSN-PACFaH@Scale Program Director, Pharm. Ibrahim Ayuba FPSN, thank you for creating time our of your very busy schedule to meet and discuss with the PSN-PACFaH@Scale team on Wednesday 18th July 2018.

he need to improve the capacity of Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria received a boost with the commissioning of a state of the art training facility in Abuja by the Country Director of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BMGF Mr Paulin Basinga. The training facility known as the Abdulraufu Mustapha CSO Training Center was the first of its kind in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Stakeholders in Nigeria’s health sector have persistently campaigned for the full implementation of the National Health Act 2014 which stipulates that not less than 1% of Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) is set aside for Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF).